The name of the group or author in plain text only. Use an internal link or piped internal link to the main article about the author. For help with internal links, see the Editing FAQ. This field is mandatory.

An image of the author, sufficiently clear for display at 200 pixels' width. Set to only the image name, e.g. Example.png, not File:Example.png or [[File:Example.png|200px|abc]]. Images used should ideally be free images; that is, not subject to copyright restrictions. If no free image is available it may be possible to use a non-free image under a claim of fair use, provided the image meets Wikipedia's non-free content criteria (for more information see WP:NFCC and WP:NFC).

There are individual fields for the various types of releases (books, novels, articles, stories, collections, pamphlets, poems, comics, plays, scripts, music, journals, letters, translations, editorbook, editorperiodical, editornewspaper, editorreference). In each field place the number of each type that the author has released. Use only numeric values in these fields. For other types of releases, see "Advanced usage" below.

Articles can include op-eds, book reviews, or essays; these are all non-fiction. These might be published in periodicals, academic journals, or possibly on the Internet, but generally not as stand-alone publications.

Stories are short fictional pieces that are published in periodicals and anthologies.

Collections is intended for works that compile several other pieces by the author, such as short story collections or a compilation of poetry.

Pamphlets are non-fiction works that are longer than essays but shorter than books. They are published as individual pieces, often in limited print runs or for book clubs.

If the bibliography doesn't use the titles as used in this template, you may modify the destination links (which appear as the diagonal arrow ↙ in the template) by using the following parameters to link from the infobox to the appropriate section. Unless your section is named exactly as used in this infobox, it will not map to the correct part of the page or will only link to the top of the bibliography page.

As not all authors are the same, some will have the need to have different sections linked in their bibliography, such as a collaboration section, unreleased works, or others. In order to list these, instead of two variables, there are four. The first two of these, "Option" and "OptionName" must be used if you wish to use this portion of the template. Note, the standard colour is a mid grey (see the Customised link parameter table below), however the example on the right employs the color selection ("Option color"), converting the color to "turquoise". The "OptionLink" parameter is optional, as when unused uses the same information from "OptionName", however with long titles, it may not be preferable to use the full title (as in the example, it is "Unpublished", but links to "Unpublished and miscellaneous works"). You may add up to four optional fields. It is advised to only use these in sequence. The basic option only requires the input as shown below. To use a second option simply add "1" in front of ALL of the parameters for the second time, "2" in front of the third and "3" in front of the last optional parameter.

Parameter purpose:
For the number of instances the option occurs
For the name or type of the Option, such as "Collaborations"
For the link to the list of instances
The color you wish to add to the background of the section in the infobox.